> I just received a new Netgear FA310TX with the "new" Netgear NIC
> that is supposedly a 21140 clone. It is not recognized correctly
> be the 'de' driver. It claims to be a "Lite-On Communications"
> card, product id 0x0002. Modifying the tulip_pci_probe in if_de.c
> to recognize the Lite-On vendor id wasn't enough. It appeared to
> probe, printing only:
> de0 at pciX slot X function X
Yah, the driver also does funny things with the chip revision number.
I had similar issues (as well as some actual bugs in the driver, which
I kluged around) when I was poking at a Macronix 21140A clone some
time ago. I sent mail summarizing my findings, but Matt never
replied.